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- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Thomaz Galvao Putting his ideals into action, Thomaz became the co-founder, in 2016, of the McKinsey Black Network in Brazil, an organization that grew from two consultants to sixteen in the two years he worked with the firm. After... View Details
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
three-color printing processes. In general, color printing was more complicated and expensive than black and white, and its results less reliable and “realistic.” Trade journals essentially considered black... View Details
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AASU50 - Alumni
Done” ( HBS Alumni Bulletin , March 2018) HBS African-American Alumni Association HBS African-American Student Union The History of AASU Seven years after the founding of Harvard Business School in 1915, Wendell Thomas Cunningham became the first View Details
- 15 Nov 2023
- News
Sound Investment
Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Retired senior lecturer Steven Rogers (MBA 1985)... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
producers to identify and attract female writers, the researchers explain. The study results have wider implications in that they reinforce what many business leaders already suspect—social movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter are... View Details
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Zoe Otedola
“Do it for them,” I whispered, sitting down to take the GMAT. Knowing only 4% of black test takers score over 700, tears pierced the corners of my eyes. Exhaustion creeped up my spine. I reminded myself I wasn’t taking this exam for me; I... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
2023 Halo Braid Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023) Business Track & Crowd Favorite Winner We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
bought discounted products, especially those who did so on Black Friday or during other holiday periods, were “lower-value,” often one-time customers. Although these findings might seem obvious, Ascarza says, the research provides... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
Having uncovered the scope of discrimination taking place against Black guests and hosts on Airbnb, researcher Michael Luca and his colleagues put together a toolkit to aid managers in recognizing and mitigating discrimination on online... View Details
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Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
scholars studying racialization as an enduring American strategy for the coercion and control of labor, particularly African American labor. Race and capitalism is an expanding area, reaching subjects as varied Jim Crow, migration, urban studies, the carceral state,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
The technology to make soap was known for several thousand years, but the product was rarely used for personal washing, especially by Europeans who largely avoided washing with water after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, believing it... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
likely to quit in the first year of the program. Black students were also more likely to drop out than white students. Some of the disparity may have to do with Black students being less likely to apply for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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and Christina Lubinski. Oct 6 06 Oct 2025 Business History Seminar Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia), "Rethinking Black Entrepreneurship in the Aftermath of American Slavery" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
1999 Named Managing Director, Morgan Stanley 2000 Releases album, Carla’s First Christmas 2005 First solo concert at Carnegie Hall 2005 Releases album, Joy Is Waiting 2005 Named by Fortune to list of 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
Sanders didn’t vote this time around; they just couldn’t get over their dislike for Hillary. One interesting departure from these trends emerged from the voting patterns of women of color—and of black women in particular. Only 26 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely